加快而非放缓经济增长,才是避免出现第六次物种大灭绝的最大指望。每天清晨,海南长臂猿都会向同伴一展歌喉;但如今它们已经没有什么好歌唱的了。这个物种(如图)是中国一个岛屿的特有物种,该岛不仅盛产水稻和橡胶,还是高尔夫球手的天堂。为了给这些(人类)活动腾出空间,绝大部分森林都被毁掉了,而海南长臂猿的数量已经锐减至几十余只。如果这个物种消失,那么它将是自1.2万年前全新世开始以来第一种灭绝的类人猿。海南长臂猿只是世界自然保护联盟列出的4224种极度濒危物种当中的一种。人们 Speeding up rather than slowing down economic growth is the greatest hope to avoid the sixth genocide. Every morning, Hainan gibbons will show their companions their voice; but now they have no good singing. This species (pictured) is endemic to an island in China that is not only rich in rice and rubber, but also a golfer’s paradise. To make room for these (human) activities, most of the forests have been destroyed, while the number of Hainan gibbons has plummeted to more than a dozen. If this species disappears, it will be the first anthropoid species to die since the Holocene 12,000 years ago. Hainan gibbon is only one of 4224 critically endangered species set out by the World Conservation Union. people